of Seagate, Dundee.
Distillers and Scotch Whisky Merchants.
1815 Company established.
1891 The company feued eighteen acres of land near Dufftown to build what became the Parkmore Distillery. This became the third distillery to be built in the area.[1]
1896 James Watson and Company Limited was incorporated, with capital of £500,000, to take over, purchase and acquire as a going concern the business of James Watson and Co, distillers and wine and spirit merchants and exporters, Dundee, Dufftown, London and elsewhere.[2] That year the company also purchased the Ord Distillery at Muir of Ord, with the intention of making alterations to increase output.[3]
1923 The company's whisky stocks were purchased by Buchanan-Dewar and John Walker and Sons in a massive deal. The stocks amounted to 5,500,000 gallons and the purchase price was over £2,000,000.[4] In August the company went into voluntary liquidation.[5]
By 1924 was already a subsidiary of Distillers Co when one of its late managing directors, Thomas Herd, was put in charge of coordinating the blended whisky subsidiaries, namely the Highland Distillery at Knockdhu and the South Queensferry distillery, under the new Distillers' subsidiary Distillers Agency.[6]
1927 A new company of the same name was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £1,000, distillers, whisky and wine merchants, and brewers.[7]
1980. Part of the Distillers Co.
1991 The company, by now dormant, went into liquidation[8]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Dundee Courier 27 November 1891
- ↑ The Scotsman 1 August 1896
- ↑ Aberdeen Press and Journal 27 May 1896
- ↑ Dundee Courier 22 May 1923
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13951/page/1219
- ↑ The Times July 24, 1924
- ↑ The Scotsman 12 November 1927
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/23077/page/3425
- National Records of Scotland BT2/3254